Caesar v. DeVAULT, TWP. TRUSTEE, ETC.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1993
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis · Bedford Quarries Co. v. Bough · Nichols v. Walter · Town of Longview v. City of Crawfordsville · State ex rel. Richards v. Hammer
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Under the Constitution of this State, cities and towns may be classified upon the basis of differences in population, and laws applicable to a single class may be regarded as general in their character, and not local or special. But the classification must be natural and reasonable and not arbitrary. It must be founded upon real and substantial differences in the local situation and necessities of the class of cities and towns to which it applies. Where such a classification excludes from its operation cities and towns differing in no material particular from those included in a class, the statute can not be upheld. .. .'" (Our emphasis.) School City of Rushville v. Hayes (1904), 162 Ind. 193, 200 , 70 N.E. 134, 137 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"More is required than a mere designation by such characteristics as will serve to classify; the characteristics serving as a basis must be of such substantial nature as to mark the objects so designated as particularly requiring exclusive legislation. There must be a substantial distinction, having reference to the subject-matter of the proposed legislation, between the objects or places embraced in the enactment, and the objects or places excluded."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where a general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general, and of uniform operation throughout the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.